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schoop
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Finland22 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-25 15:51:23
March 25 2011 15:50 GMT
#1
Howdy!

It's time for my third blog-entry. If you haven't read my previous entries you can head here to catch up. Really short version: I'm bronze, I play random and I blog to keep track of my progress and babble about my games.

Patch 1.3 is here with all it's changes. I like most of the changes but especially the record-change is something I dislike a lot. Keeping track of my progress is a bit harder now when I have to use pen and paper to track total games and losses. Well, I used pen and paper for one day and after that I totally forgot it. I'm getting old.

Patch 1.3 and the end of Season 1 also brings in the fabulous oh so awesome milestone badges and yes, I'm going to get the Bronze Top 8 - badge with stars and wings and bling bling! Hooray for me!

I'm not sure if patch changed the way matchmaking works (or I just started checking who I get matched up against) because nowadays I'm getting matched against top silver - low platinum. It is quite wide range but I haven't noticed any significant increase of skill in my opponents. I know ladders are currently locked so when season 2 starts I might get promoted unless they reset the whole thing.

Getting matched up against higher-league players have also brought up some interesting changes in my opponents. When fighting against other bronzies there is somekind of secret code of honor and respect. We both knew we suck but we still respect each other.

I have noticed that BM has increased by a lot. Of course there are still kind players who do the glhf at the start and GG's before they surrender but there has been few players who really pissed me off with their comments (was too lazy to crop and host the screenshot itself so I just wrote it here):

TvZ
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Top 8 Silver: should come as no surprise that a random facerolls with MM..... really go l2play instead of onebutton spamming.
Top 8 Silver: It's so pathetic


ZvZ
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Mid Gold: woot
Mid Gold: bronze player style
Mid Gold: lets make a single unit
Mid Gold: do you know there is more than 1 unit in this game


I realize that those two were the bad apples of the basket but they still irritated me. In those games I didn't cheese and I did not use just one unit. Ok, I admit that in first game (TvZ) I did use quite a lot of marines at the start. My first push was only pure marines and I was able to deny his expo with it, so it was quite successful. Of course when marines seemed to work I kept making them, added some marauders, medivacs and tanks to next push which was enough to make him quit.

In second game I did some speedling harrassment at first, then changed to roach/hydra and just decided to try some muta-harrassment also. He didn't have any counter to mutas so I made a bunch more which was enough for him to quit.

Luckily those two are the only BM incidents I've met so far in my SC2-career. By the way, is there some way to check my opponents league during game? Because if that's possible, maybe those two players were just embarrassed because they lost to a puny bronze :D

I still haven't wrote a lot about my builds or matchups.. Oh well, I'll spent my weekend out of town (which is the reason I wrote this entry now). I hope you enjoyed reading this. There is still a lot more to come so until next time!

Cheers!


Play random or die trying.
SubtleArt
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
2710 Posts
March 25 2011 17:15 GMT
#2
Yea the BM doesn't really get better when ur at masters either. Neither dies the cheese lol. When I promoted I was like finally enough of these cheesy bastards but nope, the only difference is that they actually know how to execute it. I remember so many games at gold where they'd bunker me except the bunker was too far away, or it would be so delayed I'd already have lings from a 15 hatch spawning as the bunker started. Good times
Morrow on ZvP: "I'm not very confident in general vs Protoss because of the imbalance (Yes its imbalanced, get over it)."
Mohdoo
Profile Joined August 2007
United States15686 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-25 19:49:46
March 25 2011 19:48 GMT
#3
When you move out of bronze and get into silver/gold/plat/lower-diamond, you get a lot of players who wish they were a lot better, know they are better than some people, and are just immature. Note: Not all of them. But there are a lot.

I'm a 3300 Master league player and most of my friends are about the same, but my younger brother happens to know a few silver/gold/plat/lower-diamond players. They talk crap amongst each other, have big egos, etc...Its sad, really. The worst part is that these people hope/wish to be good. But their immature attitudes hinder their advancement GREATLY. Just be happy to know that your mature attitude is going to allow you a better ability to see your own flaws, and as a result, you will develop as a player much quicker than they will.
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